Rupert Graves
Acting
Rupert S. Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), The Madness of King George (1984), and The Forsyte Saga (2002). Since 2010, he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock. Graves first came to prominence in costume-drama adaptations of E. M. Forster's novels A Room with a View (1985), and Maurice (1987), before going on to appear in films including A Handful of Dust (1988), The Madness of King George (1994), Different for Girls (1996), and Intimate Relations (1996). Graves's role in Intimate Relations won him the Best Actor award at the 1996 Montreal World Film Festival. He was also acclaimed for his portrayal of Young Jolyon Forsyte in the television miniseries The Forsyte Saga. Later, he appeared in films such as V for Vendetta (2005), Death at a Funeral (2007), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), and Emma (2020), and in TV series such as Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003), A Waste of Shame (2005), Sherlock (2010–), The Crimson Field (2014), and The Family (2016).
The Break
Ben's Friend
Juliet & Romeo
Prince Escalaus
Merchant Ivory
Self
Wolves of War
Professor Hopper
Dalíland
Captain Moore
Smyrna
George Horton
Emma.
Mr. Weston
A Working Mom's Nightmare
Eddie
Lion Brothers: Cubs to Kings
Narrator (voice)
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans
Paulinus
Special Couple
Silencio
Peter
Swimming with Men
Luke
Native
Cane
Sacrifice
Duncan Guthrie
Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock
Himself
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
DI Lestrade
Bone in the Throat
Rupert
Salting the Battlefield
Stirling Rogers
Turks & Caicos
Stirling Rogers
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns
Greg Lestrade
Ultimate Tutankhamun
Narrator (voice)
Seven Ages of Starlight
Fast Girls
David Temple
Underwater Okavango
Narrator (voice)
Predator Coast
Made in Dagenham
Peter Hopkins
The Good Times Are Killing Me
Lexy
God on Trial
Mordechai
The Dinner Party
Roger
The Waiting Room
George
Death at a Funeral
Robert
To Be First
Clapham Junction
Robin Cape
Intervention
Mark
V for Vendetta
Dominic
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Rag Tale
Eddy Taylor
Pride
Linus (voice)
Extreme Ops
Jeffrey
Room to Rent
Mark
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Joseph Lees
All My Loved Ones
Nicholas Winton
The Revengers' Comedies
Oliver Knightly
Bent
Officer on Train
Mrs. Dalloway
Septimus Warren Smith
Different for Girls
Paul Prentice
Intimate Relations
Harold
The Innocent Sleep
Alan Terry
The Madness of King George
Greville
Open Fire
David Martin
Doomsday Gun
Jones
Royal Celebration
Neil
Una questione privata
Milton
Damage
Martyn Fleming
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Philip Herriton
The Sheltering Desert
The Children
Gerald Ormerod
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Axel von dem Bussche
A Handful of Dust
John Beaver
Maurice
Alec Scudder
A Room with a View
Freddy Honeychurch
Puccini
Tonio
St. Ursula's in Danger
Teddt
Good and Bad at Games
Mona
Jim Atkins